Alright, here we go...
I love Christian rap...I think that it is the best form of music out there, though I have never found a type that I didn't like. Why, you may ask? In a word: lyrics. The content of Christian rap is so much more fulfilling than most of the fluff that's out there that I've listened to.
You're probably asking, "What?! Christian music...fulfilling??? You wanna talk about fluff!!!" But hold on, don't knock it till you try it. Below are the lyrics for the song Godhead, by Flame.
Verse 1: God eternally exists/ as being three in His personages/ Father, Son, and Holy Spirit and each person is/ fully God and there is only one God who subsists/ so chew on this/ cause this is meat and I’m certain of this/ His prerogative could have been to conceal Himself/ but we serve a God who has chose to reveal Himself/ to be certain of who we servin’ let’s search the text/ because it’s urgent that we worship Him for who He is/ the topic of the Trinity should evoke some emotion/ for those who are chosen/ and also for those who oppose it/ examine close He’s distinctive in His entities/ that’s why we contend for the Trinity in serenity/ we have no Christianity if God is not triune/ in that case we are were saved by whom/ then creation was made by whom/ then redemption was made by whom/ the consummation will take place by whom
Hook: Pastor Joe speaking/T-R-I-N-I-T-Y/ It’s the trinity/ it’s the trinity/ oh blessed trinity
Verse 2: If we could peer in the past and see a system called dynamic monarchianism/ another system modalistic monarchianism/ before the session we gone focus on one of the isms/ modalistic monarchianism/ get to the core or the center where the belly is/ popularized by a guy named Sabellius/ trying to fight for the position of monotheism/ traditionally held by Jewish in they religion/ and that’s true but he started trippin’ in his position/ and said that God manifested Himself in different/ modes at different times this is real twisted/ that’s why a bishop named Athanasisus had resided/ in a meeting in Nicea in 325/ A.D. where they debated was Jesus God/ and if He was, was He the Father the first time/ Jesus the second/ and Holy Spirit the third time/ while affirmed that the Father is God/ that the Son is God/ and the Holy Spirit is God/ good that ain’t gone solve it/ cause the problem is this/ it’s the simultaneousness/ that he denied
Verse 3: Modalism is back and its now packaged as Oneness Pentecostalism/ and its growing in numbers now like the cost of living/ and when they hear this I’ll be labeled a Pharisee/ but the Assemblies of God already labeled it heresy/ in the 20th century when it first emerged/ and ever since its birth its been hurting the church/ in conclusion a myriad of questions I ask/ cause its confusing and steering away at the masses/ I pose to you question number 1/ you mean to tell me that the Father is the Son/ well who was He praying to in the garden of Gethsemane/ I guess you’ll say He was prayin’ to His deity/ so you sayin’ that His human side/ is prayin’ to His divine side/ that is Father/ In that case then there are two beings/ in the person of Christ is that what you are seeing/ no that’s not the scriptures that’s confusion/ and it takes stabs at the hypostatic union/ and that’s that the one Jesus/ is 100% man and 100% God/ not 100% Father and 100% Son
Now for those of you that know anything about theological terminology, those are some pretty deep terms he uses. And he rhymes them. Imagine that in motion, set to a beat, with a flow to match the music? See what I mean?javascript:void(0)
Alright y'all...what do you think? And if you don't like rap, that's fine...tell me why, and then fill me in on whatever style you DO like. I'm looking playing around with becoming a sound engineer after all, so I am very interested.
Hollaback!
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Okay, regarding the questions you put at the end, I do not like rap, as I find the musical half of the songs quite lacking. I tend to like more music with my songs, and as such listen to more rockish stuff. As far as Christian music goes, my favorite is by far Steve Taylor, who does not do any fluff.
Fair enough. I've just discovered him myself. In fact, my friend Taylor Gordon was named for him.
The news of my impending death, came at a really bad time for me...
A guy who played Christian rap came to my church in sparta for a while. Justin Klein, http://www.worldmag.com/articles/11799
I like pretty much any kind of music.
But, as my dad says, tunewise, the Christian musicians play worse music.
Probably due to the fact that they are concentrating more on the lyrics than the music. But, whatever.
If I may be so bold, I would even go as far as to venture that in most cases, contemporary Christian music lacks more than just musical style. I am never edifyied by the lyrics near the extent that I am when I listen to Christian hip-hop.
There are some emcees out there that are really really reformed. For example, though I'm not wild about his music style, Shai Linne is extremely solid in his delivery of reformed theology through Christian hip-hop.
And, if the musical stylings of hip-hop aren't for your taste, check out the new album by 116 Clique at http://www.116clique.com. It's called Amped, and it takes all of the lyrical content of one of their previous albums and puts it to really good heavy metal. I can't wait to pick up a copy.
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